Articles on Israel-Palestine

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We are used to thinking of Gaza as a war-torn stretch of ground. A place where life goes grimly on in the face of an intractable conflict. A graveyard not only for civilians caught in the crossfire, but…

Israel will hold an early general election on March 17. The campaign is already in full swing – and it is not confined to Israel’s borders. In the wake of anti-Semitic attacks in Copenhagen. This has infuriated…

“We must have shared and equal life”, reads a sign at the Max Rayne school in Jerusalem, hit by an arson attack on November 29.
US Embassy Tel Aviv
December 4, 2014

Israel is a deeply divided society, a fact reinforced by separate schools for Jews, Arabs and Christians. In 1984, the Hand-in-Hand movement began working to build peace via a network of integrated, bilingual…

The latest violent episode between Palestinians and Israelis has prompted Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to assert that Israel is in the midst of a “battle for Jerusalem”. This is a city divided…

The Israeli government continues to undermine a two-state solution by expanding settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
EPA/Jim Hollander
November 20, 2014

Escalating confrontations in Jerusalem centred on the al-Aqsa Mosque, 1500 more homes to be built in settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and a sharp deterioration in Israel’s relations with Jordan have…

The attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which four Jewish worshippers were killed and eight were injured has sparked new fears that fighting between Israel and Palestinian could flare up once more. The…

Haram al-Sharif is a focus of rising tensions in Jerusalem.
EPA/Jim Hollander
November 14, 2014

The seven-week Gaza War ended inconclusively on August 26. Israel declared victory saying that Hamas was seriously weakened and had achieved none of its aims whereas Hamas claimed to have repelled Israel…

Does this month’s escalation in violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank mean that a third intifada – a Palestinian uprising against the Israel’s occupation, following those of 1987 and 2000 – is imminent…

In the near three decades that I have been involved with Gaza and her people, I have never seen the kind of physical and psychological destruction that I see there today. In all Gaza’s long and tormented…

There will always be plenty of young people willing to serve in the IDF.
EPA/Atef Safadi
September 15, 2014

In 1988, I was in Kathmandu in Nepal when I found out that war was raging in the occupied territories; it would soon become known as “the intifada”. And when, in a small corner shop I spotted in one of…

As violence flared between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza recently, a BBC thriller about the conflict, The Honourable Woman, was airing. It’s a classy, beautifully shot, taut tale of espionage, counterespionage…

The pawn’s the only honourable player.
BBC/Drama Republic
August 22, 2014

Warning: this article contains spoilers. From its haunting opening scene, The Honourable Woman grips with its riveting, beautifully crafted sequences and some gloriously witty lines. The BBC’s eight-episode…

Cult of Moloch - not in same league as Hamas.
Charles Foster via Wikimedia Commons
August 20, 2014

From debates concerning the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to the 1967 Six Day War’s titular reference to the days of creation, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has often been made to resonate with biblical…